Speakers

Steve Nunn

CEO

The Open Group

Steve Nunn is President and CEO of The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. He is also President of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA).

Steve joined The Open Group in 1993, spending the majority of his time as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel. He was also CEO of the AEA from 2010 until 2015.

Steve is a lawyer by training, has an L.L.B. (Hons) in Law with French and retains a current legal practicing certificate. Having spent most of his life in the UK, Steve has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2007. He enjoys spending time with his family, walking, playing golf, 80’s music, and is a lifelong West Ham United fan.

Peter Haviland

Managing Director, Head of Engineering & Architecture

Moody's Corporation

Peter Haviland is the Managing Director, Head of Engineering & Architecture at Moody’s. Moody's provides credit ratings, research, tools and analysis that contribute to transparent and integrated financial markets. Moody's Corporation is the parent company of Moody's Investors Service, which provides credit ratings and research covering debt instruments and securities, and Moody's Analytics, which offers leading-edge software, advisory services and research for credit and economic analysis and financial risk management.

Peter is Supplier Member Representative and Vice-Chair on The Open Group's Governing Board, where he represents the interests of the supplier members of The Open Group on topics such as the Open Standard for Business Architecture, the strategy to drive greater conference participation, the supplier contact portal, and the interface between standards organizations. He is actively involved in the development of the next version of TOGAF, as well as the publication of several whitepapers. He was a key contributor to TOGAF 9 and is an Open CA Distinguished Chief Architect within The Open Group's Open CA scheme; as such he regularly speaks at industry conferences on a range of related topics.

He is passionate about ensuring business and technology is designed as one, so that business innovation can be driven by technical innovation, and vice versa. Not only should this create a more harmonious operating environment for all companies and promote boundaryless information flow; it will also reduce the amount of redundant hardware in existence and provide more environmentally sustainable infrastructure. This requires standards and approaches that meld business and IT, which is where The Open Group plays a pivotal role. These are the motivations for Peter’s continued involvement in The Open Group.

Paul Homan

CTO Industrial Solutions

IBM, UK

Paul is an Enterprise Architect of over 25 years experience, having worked in industry as the Chief Architect at Royal Mail before joining IBM to advise others.

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J. Bryan Lail is a Business Architect Fellow at Raytheon Missile Systems. He works across business functions and units to derive key business growth and competitive strategies, and then develops value stream models and business capability maps to shape new ways of doing business to execute the strategies. Architecting the business includes rigorous methods for forming new business models, finding new value streams across organizational functions, and innovative use of information to increase probability of win in new markets. He uses these methods for portfolio-wide insight accelerating business and enterprise-wide initiatives.

Bryan has given dozens of public presentations, including seven global publications on Business Architecture including the Open Group Guide to Value Streams, panel and primary author status on the Business Architecture Guild, multiple papers on applying business models, value streams and capability mapping, and multiple webinars presenting the methods in the publications. These include regular invited updates to global symposia across Europe and North America. He is a Master Certified IT Architect (Open Group), a Certified Business Architect (CBA® with the Business Architecture Guild) and holds a Master’s Degree in Physics.

Roy Donelson

Managing Director, Defence

Raytheon UK

Roy Donelson is the Managing Director for the Raytheon UK Defence product line and has overall profit & loss responsibilities for the Weapons and Mission Critical Solutions mission areas. He is also the director of Programme Delivery and Mission Assurance for Raytheon UK and its overseas subsidiaries where he is responsible for programme leadership, quality, mission assurance and innovation.

Prior to his assignment to Raytheon UK, Roy was the director of Tomahawk Missile Programs at Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS). Previously, he was a senior consultant at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, an international technology and management consulting firm. During his time at Booz Allen, he was a senior consultant in the system architecture of command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) systems. Prior to that, Roy was a military intelligence officer in the United States Army, serving for five years and attaining the rank of Captain.

Roy is a fellow with the Royal Aeronautical Society and also a fellow of the Institute of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange (IKE), the UK’s professional body for innovators. He earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix.

Mick Adams

Associate Partner - EMEIA Advisory Center

EY

Mick Adams is a former Vice-Chair of The Open Group Architecture Forum and a Distinguished Profession Leader within The Open Group Open CA program. He is a key author of numerous “World-Class EA” papers and was a key contributor to TOGAF 9.

Based in Europe, he is part of EY’s Global Architecture Leadership Team and works in a variety of industries including financial services, oil and gas, and the public sector. Typically, he helps clients to solve challenging business issues with the help of technology.

Rob Akershoek is an IT Management Architect. For over 20 years he has been involved in improving IT organizations by designing, implementing and automating IT management processes. He helps organizations to transform to a new IT organization, ready to manage new technologies such as Cloud and mobile, as well implementing new IT management concepts such as DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Big Data for IT and Self Service.

Currently he is working as an IT4IT architect at Shell responsible for the solution architecture and design of IT management solutions. In this role he has been involved in IT4IT Forum from The Open Group. He is author of the IT4IT management guide published by The Open Group.

He has a broad range of experience in implementing IT management capabilities (for example based upon ITIL, COBIT, SCRUM, PMBOK, etc.) and has been responsible for the roll-out of numerous integrated IT management solutions. This included projects related to Enterprise Architecture(EA), Service and Application Portfolio Management (APM), Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Continuous Delivery, Agile and Lean Software Development, Test Management, Deployment Automation, Service Monitoring, IT Service Management (ITSM), Software Asset Management (SAM), IT Financial Management (ITFM), IT Reporting, CMDB and IT Asset Management.

Ian Anderson

Enterprise Architect

Coventry University

Ian Anderson has worked in the UK HE sector for nearly 30 years, originally starting out in Finance. A number of years back, he ‘saw the light’ and moved into IT and initially specifically Business Systems Analysis. He currently works for Coventry University (where he obtained both his Batchelor and MBA awards) leading on Enterprise Architecture. This role is presently focused on assisting the IT transformation programme designed to help deliver the university group strategic plan. He is currently Chair of the UCISA EA CoP and was responsible for both the creation of, and obtaining the backing for, the UK HE Capability Model project, although he is the first to admit that the final outcome was very much a team effort!

Vincenzo Barrea

AVP Software Engineering

Moody's Corporation

Vincenzo Barrea is a highly skilled, ambitious and creative technologist. His obsession with aligning sophisticated technology capabilities to unsolvable business problems has resulted in company changing capabilities that drive cross-firm collaboration, business case achievement and accelerating the innovation agenda across the firm. He is a firm-wide expert in development, machine learning and building compelling product for Moody’s Investor Service.

Charles Betz

Principal Analyst

Forrester Research

Charles Betz is a principal analyst with Forrester Research serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals; he covers enterprise service
management and digital operational excellence.

He spent 6 years at Wells Fargo as VP and Enterprise Architect for IT Portfolio Management and Systems Management. He has held analyst, architect and application manager positions for AT&T, Best Buy, Target, EMA, and Accenture, specializing in IT management, Cloud, and enterprise architecture.
He is author of The Architecture of IT Management, a comprehensive reference architecture for the “business of IT,” and co-author of several works with Lean collaborators and for ISACA’s COBIT.

Invited to the IT4IT Consortium Strategy Board, he led the IT4IT transition to an open standard as The Open Group IT4IT Forum. He currently represents Armstrong Process Group to IT4IT and The Open Group.
Charlie is also an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas, and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife Sue and son Keane.

Dennis Brandl

Chief Consultant

BR&L Consulting

Dennis Brandl is the Chief Consultant for BR&L consulting, specializing in all aspects of Manufacturing IT. He has been involved in MOM/MES, batch control, and automation system design and implementation in a wide range of applications over the past 30 years. His experience has included MES and automated systems for chemical plants and oil refineries, manual and automated systems for pharmaceutical and food & beverage production.

Dennis is an active member of the ISA 95 Enterprise/Control System Integration committee, and the ISA 99 Cyber System Security committee.

Dennis has an MS in Measurement and Control from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a MS in Computer Science from California State University.

David Cannon

Vice President and Group Director

Forrester Research Inc.

David Cannon leads consulting strategy at Forrester. He is the author of the ITIL v3 Service Operation (2007) and Service Strategy (2011) publications, and past president of itSMF USA, International and South Africa.

Don Clark

VP and Schneider Fellow

Schneider Electric

Don has over 42 years of experience in process operations across the chemicals, oil & gas, pharma, and power industries focused on process control and automation, with various companies from both the end-user and vendor communities such as Rohm & Haas, 3M Co, Honeywell, AspenTech, Invensys, and now with Schneider Electric.

Don obtained his BS degree in Chemistry at California State University, Fullerton, in 1973, and his MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston, Texas, in 1975.

James Conway

Senior Technology Strategy & Innovation Consultant

IBM UK

James is a senior technology strategy & innovation consultant with a track record in driving the development and delivery of digital transformation programmes to improve results for businesses and their customers.

He started his working career designing water and sewer diversions and protection schemes to enable major infrastructure works such as Crossrail, moving to technical information management roles. Since joining IBM, James has worked across private, public and third sectors, specialising in technology strategy projects and working towards achieving TOGAF certification. Outside work he enjoys travelling around Spain and going to fine dining restaurants.

Steve Dock

SVP, Research, Content, Natural Language and Publishing

Moody's Corporation

Steve Dock is the Research business technology leader for Moody’s. His team delivered a highly successful cross-business content transformation program. The group now focuses on extending content capabilities, market reach and innovations across the firm including Natural Language Generation, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. The team has already implemented a number of AI based capabilities in their production systems and continue to hunt, fit and implement other capabilities.

Luis Duran

Global Product Manager Safety and Security

ABB

Luis Duran is a process automation professional with over 28 years of experience in areas ranging from application development, project design and implementation and Project Management of Basic Process Control Systems (BPCS) and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) as well as Front End Design of process simulation and management execution software applied to the Chemical, Petrochemical and Oil & Gas industries. Luis has a BSEE and MBA from Universidad Simon Bolívar in Caracas Venezuela and is a certified Functional Safety Engineer (FSE) by TÜV Rheinland. Luis has published several papers, primarily on Safety Instrumented Systems and Critical Control Applications.

Kary Främling

CEO ControlThings

Aalto University

Kary Främling is a Professor in Computer Science at Aalto University in Finland, as well as Professor in Data Science at Umeå University in Sweden. He is also a Founder and CEO of the company ControlThings that develops commercial Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. Kary is the current Chair of the IoT Work Group of The Open Group, as well as the main contributor to the IoT standards Open Messaging Interface (O-MI) and Open Data Format (O-DF), published by The Open Group in October 2014.

Kary is an author of over 100 articles published in scientific journals and conferences, including the (presumably) first article that mentions the IoT in 2002. That article presented a middleware implementation that fulfilled most requirements for IoT architectures and was used in several industrial systems. Since then, Kary has been the main architect of IoT systems in various domains, such as buildings, HVAC equipment, vehicles, supply chain management etc.

Chris Harding

Principal

Lacibus

Chris recently formed Lacibus Ltd to provide services based on virtual data lakes and data-centered architecture.

He was previously Director for Interoperability at The Open Group, where he managed development of industry standards and guides for many aspects of open systems, including social, mobile, and cloud computing, big data, the Internet of things, SOA, use of the Web, user interface, and networking.

He began his career as a real-time software developer and team leader. He then practiced as a computer communications consultant before joining The Open Group.

Chris has a PhD in Mathematical Logic, is a member of the BCS and of the IEEE, and is TOGAF-8 certified.

Alexander Horch

VP Research, Development and Product Management

HIMA Group

Alexander Horch (M.Sc. Engineering Cybernetics, 1996; PhD Automatic Control, 2000) worked as Principal Scientist at ABB Corporate Research and held different management roles in the areas of process control systems and industrial automation as well as Industrial Internet for ABB Germany and ABB Switzerland.

Alexander Horch is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Automation Professional (CAP) of the ISA. His R&D work was complemented by publications and seminars, regular university lectures (e.g. ETH Zürich) as well as work for standardization organisations. Since 2016 Vice President Development at HIMA Group, a leading supplier of safety-related automation for process industry and rail applications.

Syed Husain

Manager Enterprise Architecture

Accenture

Syed is a Manager in Accenture Strategy, focused on Enterprise Architecture and Technology Strategy. He works mainly in the Financial Services sector helping firms create roadmaps for change and deal with technology as a strategic driver. His key interest, outside of his day job, is in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Syed joined from the Saudia Arabian E-government program where he helped establish the EA office for the central government to help oversee technology strategy for the entire central government. His other experiences include helping Samba Financial Group replace its core banking platform and modernise its integration platform.

Syed holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and a bachelors in Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Gert-Jan Kamer

IT Quality Manager

Tata Steel Europe

In IT since 1984. Worked for Albert Heijn Supermarkets and IT Company BSO in The Netherlands.Started at Tata Steel in 2008 at IT demand side. For the past 8 years combined the role of Enterprise Architect with the role of Quality Manager.

Since March 1st full time focus on IT Quality.

Certified ISO9001:2015 auditor and TOGAF certified.

Mohan Kewalramani

Director

HCL Technologies

Mohan heads the Service Orchestration practice at HCL and is part of the core team within the HCL DRYiCE business unit involved in designing and developing HCL’s Service Management solutions and products. He has held a lead architect role in the designing and implementation of Service Management projects for several of HCL’s large global customers. Mohan has over 18 years experience in large service management transformation programs within large, complex multi supplier environments assisting clients orchestrate services across multiple service providers and adapt to a services oriented operating model.

Mohan has also co-authored two books – “Building a sensible CMDB (Foundation of Intelligent IT Operations: CMDB and Service Maps)” and “Adapting to Digital Transformation: Design Sensible SLAs for Modern IT”.

Rolf Knoll

Head of Competence Area EAM

NovaTec Consulting GmbH

Rolf Knoll currently works as a Senior Managing Consultant and Head of the Competence Area EAM at NovaTec Consulting GmbH.

He started to study Architecture and City Planning in the 1980s and finished his studies with computer science focusing on object oriented technology and software architecture.

From 1993 to 2000 he developed frameworks for large banking systems. From 2000 to 2006 he was a consultant for frameworks for high-performant distributed and data-intense IT systems.

For more than 10 years he has focused as a consultant on the establishment and optimization of the EA capability at different customers across the industries.

He is Lecturer for• Distributed systems - Cooperative State University of Baden-Württemberg• EAM - University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart

He is trainer for:• TOGAF• EA• IT Architecture

Marc Lankhorst

Managing Consultant

BIZZdesign

Marc Lankhorst is Managing Consultant and Chief Technology Evangelist at BiZZdesign. He is responsible for BiZZdesign's vision, market development, consulting and coaching on digital business design and enterprise architecture, and for spreading the word onthe ArchiMate® language for Enterprise Architecture modeling, The Open Group standard of which he has managed the development.

His expertise and interests range from enterprise and business architecture to service orientation, agile methods and digital business design.

Marc has co-authored several books and numerous other publications, most notably ‘Enterprise Architecture at Work’, the original book on the ArchiMate language.

David Lounsbury

Chief Technical Officer

The Open Group

David is Chief Technical Officer for The Open Group. As CTO he ensures that
the people and IT resources at The Open Group are effectively used to
implement the organization’s strategy and mission, including The Open
Group’s proven processes for collaboration and certification both within
the organization and in support of third-party consortia.

David's previous executive assignments at The Open Group and the Open Software Foundation (OSF) include VP Advanced Research and Innovation which fostered open systems technology through collaborative funding and development, including LDAP, ActiveX Core Technology, DCE 1.2, CDE-Next, and Complex Text Layout.

David holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and is holder of three U.S. patents.

Miloslav Marcan

CIO

Ministry of Industry and Trade, Czech Republic

Miloslav Marcan has managed information technology at the Ministry of Industry and Trade for the past 25 years. He serves as the vice chair of The Government Council for Information Society and the Czech Association of Information Technology Managers. He is the author of several expert articles, and a frequent participant at industry-relevant and regional conferences. He led and executed a complex project on the mapping of Enterprise Architecture of resort as the first central office in the Czech Republic. He also manages ICT investments through a complex EA model. He is currently taking an active role on legislation of national ICT strategy, and his department is the official pilot site for its implementation.

Mauro Morelli

IT Architect for IT Portfolio Management

UBS AG

Mauro is Master Certified Architect since 2010. He has 20+ years of experience in the financial sector, with exposure to diverse areas ranging from software architecture to infrastructure and enterprise architecture. His current focus is on IT Portfolio Management, and the alignment of data and processes between EA repositories and CMDBs.

Venkat Nambiyur

Director - Business Transformation, Enterprise & Cloud Architecture, Small to Medium Business

Oracle

Venkat Nambiyur is the Oracle Digital's Director of Business Transformation Services and Enterprise Cloud Architecture for North America SMB and SMG customers. The Business Transformation team that he as the Chief Technologist leads works with key Small to Medium Business & Government entities helping them make critical digital transitions ranging from born in cloud to hybrid architectures to migrate all in to cloud as they deliver products, value and services to markets and citizens.

Venkat has been in the technology industry for nearly 20 years in various roles starting as a developer/analysts growing into a Chief Architect across many verticals including healthcare, finance, government, education to name a few. Prior to joining Oracle Venkat was the Chief Architect at Hanger and Texas Department of Public Safety enabling their digital transformations successfully. He is an active Open Group member leading and contributing to various standard development efforts like the Digital Professionals workgroup and Open Group Business Architecture Standard Board Working Group.

Tony Price

Principal Consultant

Virtual Clarity

Tony Price has 35 years of IT experience and was recently recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on IT Service Management with the itSMF Lifetime Achievement Award. He has a passion for delivering business outcomes and regularly works with Global CIO’s and IT VP’s to deliver IT transformation programs.

Tony was an ITIL author and now has a new role that is 100% focused on IT4IT because, as he says, “IT4IT is the "missing link" I have always been looking for in IT: a reference architecture, value-based thinking and a far more prescriptive approach for running the business of IT.”

Lars Rossen

Micro Focus Fellow in the Office of Strategy and Technology

Micro Focus

Lars Rossen is a Micro Focus Fellow in the Office of Strategy and Technlogy. Lars created the first version of the IT4IT™ Reference Architecture which formed the basis for the standard in The Open Group, and Lars continues to be the lead architect for the IT4IT initiative. This forms a foundation for the development of the Hybrid IT management portfolio of products.

Before joining Micro Focus, Lars worked for the Hewlett Packard Enterprise CTO organization. Lars also worked in the Software portfolio architecture and strategy team and has had many leading roles in defining and progressing the current IT management solution portfolio. Before his current IT4IT role, Lars was part of the core team that defined HPE's CloudSystem strategy and associated solution portfolio.

Prior to joining the portfolio strategy office, Lars headed up HPE’s Operational Support System practice for Europe, Middle East and Africa. He played an important role in linking the vision of eTOM, NGOSS, and ITIL into practical solutions through HP’s Integrated Service Management blueprint. That design served as the basis for how many cloud services are managed today.

Lars was a researcher at the University of Denmark in the area of formal methods for computing before becoming CTO at Netman, a telecoms ISV and Consultancy Company. HP acquired Netman in 2004 and structured it into an operation support systems expertise centre.

Lars holds an MS in engineering, an executive MBA with focus on technology management, and a PhD in computer science from the technical University of Denmark.

Ron Schuldt

Manager

Data-Harmonizing

Ron Schuldt has been involved with The Open Group’s Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) standard since its inception. The UDEF is the forerunner to the new O-DEF standard. Ron has over twenty-eight years experience as a systems engineer for Lockheed Martin working systems design and integration. He has been involved in multiple data interchange standards activities and is recognized as an expert on data standards. He is Chairman of The Open Group Semantic Interoperability Work Group. Currently, he is Manager of Data-Harmonizing, LLC, providing data integration training and consulting services.

Trishit Sengupta

Chief Architect, Business Change

Wipro Digital

Trishit is a practicing architect, strategist and passionate advocate of technology led business change. He brings in 17+ years of distinguished experience in crafting strategy, building differentiating enterprise capabilities, developing end-to-end architecture, advising enterprise direction and transforming business. A design thinker motivated by disruptive vision for delightful customer experience, he adopts a holistic yet pragmatic view on enterprise ecosystem ensuring that proposed vision, strategy and change agenda are realistic and actionable.

In his current role, Trishit is focused on crafting customer experience driven adaptive architecture and innovative service design enabling successful enterprise transformation at speed and scale. In parallel, he is engaged as trusted adviser to customer leadership and CXOs crafting and realising transformative change. Trishit enjoys learning and promoting new concepts and ideas through knowledge sharing. He loves coaching and being coached, mentoring and reverse mentoring.

He is a natural cross-board influencer, adept at high impact communication and executive presentation. He loves stories, especially ones that move mountains.

He is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff - the apex council of Wipro chartered on thought leadership and technology led innovation. He is also a founder member, faculty and mentor in Wipro's Academy of Enterprise Architecture.

He understands and appreciates that cultural and behavioural changes are critical (if not the most important) ingredients of successful transformation as much as the redesign of customer experience, business capabilities, processes and technology. His experience in management consulting and prudent interest in behavioural economics helps in driving positive change.

Mark Smalley

IT Paradigmologist

ASL BiSL, Foundation & APMG - International

Mark Smalley is a self-employed IT Management Consultant, Ambassador at the ASL BiSL Foundation, ASL BiSL Product Champion at APMG and Delivery Partner and Lead Trainer for GamingWorks. Also known as the IT Paradigmologist.

Andras Szakal

CTO/CIO/CSO/CFO

IBM

Mr. Szakal is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer IBM U.S. Federal.He is responsible for IBM’s industry solution technology strategy in support of the U.S. Federal customer. Mr. Szakal’s team provides deep industry and technical expertise necessary to address complex government challenges such as cybersecurity and cloud computing. Mr. Szakal represents the IBM Software Group on the Board of Directors of The Open Group and AFEI. He currently holds the Vice Chair of the Trusted Technology Forum and Chairs the Open Certified Architect (Open CA) standard.

Mr. Szakal is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer IBM U.S. Federal. He is responsible for IBM’s industry solution technology strategy in support of the U.S. Federal customer. Mr. Szakal was appointed IBM Distinguished Engineer.

Martin Tax

Owner

DAIN, s.r.o.

Martin Tax is owner of DAIN, s.r.o., a Czech consultancy firm. He is a strategist, active in the government and private sectors over the past 20 years. He has authored several EA methodologies and patterns used by the central government in the Czech Republic. He is currently fully utilizing the whole development team with tasks for practical outputs from EA in web repository. When time allows for modeling, the output is usually a strategy diagram, or an RC model of an airplane from the first world war.

He has been a solution executive, innovation leader and product manager for five global IT software / services companies including IBM and CSC, and worked as an independent strategy adviser.

In Fortune 100 corporates including Walmart and Lincoln Financial IT Dan held leadership roles in strategic planning, innovation, governance, and large-scale solution delivery. He is an active participant in The Open Group's IT4IT Forum.

David Wheable

Vice President and Consulting Director

Forrester Research Inc.

David is the European Consulting lead for Forrester. Prior to joining Forrester, David was the global lead of the HP Service Management Profession, HP Software Professional Services portfolio governance lead, and innovation lead. Today he focuses on guiding organizations through the growing maze of options available for digital disruption

Oliver White

Transformation Director

BITC

Oliver oversees the development of BITC's overall Transformation and Change strategy and implementation.

Prior to joining BITC, Oliver worked in a number of senior positions at Barclays, Centrica and Aviva in a combination of Customer, Insight and Transformation roles. He has most recently worked in consulting roles across a wide range of corporates, ranging from the water industry through to financial services.

Oliver is married with two daughters. He has travelled extensively and has a particular interest in Antarctica which he has visited on a number of occasions. He is also a keen, but amateur, gardener and allotment owner

Łukasz Wrześniewski

Agile Transformation Consultant

4IT Group

Łukasz Wrześniewski works as Agile Transformation and Enterprise Architecture Consultant. He specializes in Agile Enterprise Architecture and Agile Program Management. He is also active trainer who provides TOGAF®, ArchiMate®, IT4IT™ and Scaled Agile training courses.

He worked as IT Director, Enterprise Architect, Program Manager and Consultant in Banking, Telecom, Services, Manufacturing, Distribution, Healthcare and ICT. He is business results oriented, creative and likes to work with models and numbers to support decision making process.

He champions the use of Systems Thinking, TOGAF framework, ArchiMate visual design language and IT4IT reference architecture to support business/technology transformations.

Jonathan Young

Global Enterprise Architect

IBM, Global Technology Services

Jonathan is a Distinguished Certified IT Architect. His 20+ year career at IBM has spanned both Application Integration (GBS) and Infrastructure Services (GTS). His work includes positioning client solutions in terms of the business Enterprise and developing Enterprise Architecture Governance automation within IBM.

His global role as an Enterprise Architect leverages his experience to lead Technical Health Checks, consulting, solutions and contract negotiations. Jonathan's notable career achievements include 3 Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards and the 2015 Gerstner Award for Client Excellence. He also keeps a hand in practical coding and is familiar with Cloud technologies, Agile methods and DevOps tools.

Andrew Josey

VP, Standards & Certification

The Open Group

Andrew Josey is VP Standards and Certification overseeing all certification and testing programs of The Open Group. He also manages the standards process for The Open Group. Since joining the company in 1996, Andrew has been closely involved with the standards development, certification and testing activities of The Open Group. He has led many standards development projects including specification and certification development for the ArchiMate®, TOGAF®, POSIX® and UNIX® programs. He is a member of the IEEE, USENIX, FLOSSUK, and the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA).

Mike Lambert

Fellow of The Open Group

Mike Lambert, Fellow of The Open Group. Mike was one of the pioneers of TOGAF. As Chief Technical Officer for The Open Group, he was the Technical Editor for the IEEE 1003.0 architecture standard in the late 1980s and responsible for the development of TOGAF within The Open Group until the publication of the TOGAF standard version 8. On leaving The Open Group in April 2003, Mike was appointed as the first Fellow of The Open Group, in recognition of his extensive contribution to the development of Open Systems and Architecture. Between 2005 and 2014, Mike was Chief Technical Officer and Principal Instructor for Architecting-the-Enterprise Ltd., with specific responsibility for the development, delivery and quality of the Architecting-the-Enterprise TOGAF training business. Mike has been the Chair of The Architecture Forum since the start of 2016 and had taken a leading role in the evolution of the TOGAF Standard and ecosystem and the delivery of version 9.2.